Former president honored
with Kennedy award
BOSTON (AP) — Former President
George H.W. Bush was honored Sunday
with a Kennedy “courage” award for agreeing to raise taxes to confront a spiraling
deficit, jeopardizing his presidency that
ended after just one term.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library and Museum in Boston honored
Bush with a 2014 John F. Kennedy Profile
in Courage Award.
The award crossed generations and
political parties. It was given by Jack
Schlossberg, son of the late Democratic
president’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, to
Lauren Bush, granddaughter of the former
Republican president.
Conservatives denounced Bush for raising taxes, breaking a key promise in his successful 1988 campaign for the White House.
Schlossberg said the award recognizes Bush for taking action, even if it
was unpopular.
“We celebrate courage today, in a moment of profound change and challenge,
in a world gripped by partisan gridlock and
inaction,” he said.

Perry: Okla. execution
‘went terribly wrong’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas
Gov. Rick Perry says “something went
terribly wrong” during the botched
execution of an Oklahoma inmate, but
declined to call it inhumane.
Speaking on “Meet the Press” Sunday, Perry said he thought it was appropriate for Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin
to delay an upcoming execution as state
officials investigate what went wrong
in the Tuesday execution of Clayton
Lockett, who appeared to writhe in pain
until dying of a heart attack.
Perry said he’s confident in Texas’
ability to carry out executions properly
and still supports the death penalty.
He added that each state
should decide for itself whether
to have executions.
The botched execution got worldwide attention and has driven calls for
new legal challenges.

MayDay 5k Glow

Annual 5k hosted to commemorate student’s death

PHOTOS BY CASEY HITCHCOCK/The Daily Toreador

MEMBERS OF KAPPA Alpha Theta participate in the Mayday Glow 5k on Friday on Glenna BROOKE WESTMORELAND, A junior nursing student from Keller, paints
Goodacre. The 5k benefitted the Meagan Rough Memorial Fund.
the face of a fellow Kappa Alpha Theta member during the Mayday Glow 5k
benefitting the Meagan Rough Memorial Fund on Friday on Glenna Goodacre.

By HANNAH HIPP
Staff Writer

In December of 2012, Texas Tech student Meagan Rough
was killed when hit by a drunk driver.
Months later, family and friends close to Meagan set up
the MayDay 5K Glow event in her honor, and now a year
later, the event was hosted again.
“We named it MayDay because Meagan’s nickname was
May, and she loved spring and the warm weather,” Kari
Rough, Meagan’s mother, said. “Her best friends wanted to
be proactive, and so we put this event together.”
The students who knew Meagan were on fire with doing
something about what happened, Rough said.

By TYLER DORNER
Texas Tech System Chancellor Kent
Hance announced at 10:30 a.m. Friday
in the City Bank Conference Center that
the basketball arena previously known
as United Spirit Arena will be renamed
United Supermarkets Arena.
For $9.45 million, United Supermarkets
extended its contract for the naming rights
to the arena. Hance said the deal has been
in the works for some time. United Supermarkets has been supporting Tech for 20
years and this deal extended that partnership.
“They believe in Texas Tech,” Hance
said. “They believe in Lubbock, and they
put their money where their mouth is.”
The deal will not only benefit athletics,
but also graduations and concerts with artists like Paul McCartney, Elton John and
George Strait, Hance said.
The $9.45 million will go toward a
number of different improvements to different areas of the arena, including the
basketball and volleyball locker rooms, the
athletic training areas and several other
areas of the venue, Athletic Director Kirby
Hocutt said.
“This naming rights extension is going
to allow us to renovate our team locker
room facilities, for both our men’s and
women’s basketball programs and our volleyball program,” he said. “This extension
is also going to allow us to make modest
enhancements to the coaching office
space, to our practice gym area, to the
arena entry space here at United Supermarkets Arena.”
The deal is part of the Fearless
Champions campaign, Hocutt said. The
Fearless Champions campaign is part of
a commitment to a successful future for
Tech Athletics.
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No one should drink and drive, Rough said, because there
are too many other options.
“Arrange for a ride, call ahead and always have a backup
plan,” she said. “What happened to my daughter is just one
of the many reasons to never drink and drive.”
The event is meant to be a reminder of Meagan’s death
and a reminder to never drive while under the influence,
Rough said.
Hosting the event right before finals, Rough said, is a
good time to put that reminder in people’s minds.
“We do it now so that when dead day rolls around, there’s
this reminder that everyone has,” she said.
Jim Rough, Meagan’s father, said the goal is to raise
awareness for drinking and driving so they know they have

other choices.
“It’s not the only option,” Jim Rough said. “There are so
many other things students can do.”
The event featured live music, face painting and a 5K
run, which began and ended on Glenna Goodacre.
The hope was to have about 200 people show up, Jim
Rough said.
“This is our second year,” he said, “and we’re hoping to
keep it alive and keep it growing.”
They were also giving away a scholarship, Jim Rough
said, to a student who showed a great desire to prevent drug
and alcohol abuse.
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City participates in National Lemonade Day
By HANNAH HIPP
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On a sweltering day, almost nothing is quite as refreshing as a cold glass
of lemonade.
Lemonade Day was Saturday in
Lubbock, and more than 100 stands
were set up around town.
Joanna Martinez and her daughter,
Zayda, were running a stand on Slide
Road called The Big Squeeze.
“I wanted my daughter to get the
experience of being an entrepreneur,”
Martinez said, “in case she decided to
open her own business or something
in the future.”
Lemonade Day came to Lubbock
in 2012 and was so successful in its
first year it is now an annual event,
according to the Lubbock Lemonade
Day website. Citizens of Lubbock
were encouraged to buy three glasses
of lemonade from various stands
around their neighborhood or anywhere in the city.
Each stand can pick a charity to

donate to, and Martinez said they
decided to donate to the Lubbock
Special Olympics.
“I have a stepdaughter who is
handicapped,” Martinez said, “so the
charity holds a special place in my
heart and Zayda’s heart.”
The goal of Lemonade Day is to
empower today’s youth to become
tomorrow’s entrepreneurs, and give
them a taste of what running a business
is really like, according to the website.
Martinez heard about the event
on a radio broadcast, she said, and
knew it would be a good opportunity
for her daughter.
“It’s a great event to do to bond
with my daughter,” Martinez said,
“while also teaching her some valuable things.”
They were selling not only lemonade, which Martinez stayed up all
night squeezing lemons to make, she
said, but also homemade cupcakes,
chips and candy.
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KIDS LINE UNIVERSITY Avenue, as well as many other
places around town, to sell lemonade on Lubbock Lemonade
Day on Saturday.

While some students leave for the summer
and others stay on campus to continue working
on classes, Texas Tech will continue to grow
and change, not only from the students’ presence, but also from the renovations planned.
According to the Tech System website,
there are several renovations that will take
place during the summer months on Lubbock’s
campus as well as the other campuses that
make up the university system.
Eric Fernandes, a senior natural resource
management major from Austin, said he

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thinks it will be nice to see some of the older
buildings get a makeover.
“Some of the older buildings have inferior classrooms and facilities compared to
the newer buildings,” he said. “I think it’s
good that we’re expanding into new buildings, but we should also focus on upgrading
existing facilities in addition to expanding
into new buildings.”
The projects that will be worked on during the summer, according to the website, are
the new student housing complex, the track
team building renovation, Biological Sciences
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expansion, El Paso School of Nursing, Tech
campus beautification, Bayer CropScience
Research Facility and the College of Human
Sciences life safety upgrade.
The projects have budgets between $1
million and $54.8 million, according to the
website, and will be completed during the
next few years.
Saige Bennett, a sophomore exercise and
sport sciences major from Mesquite, said she
agrees with some of the renovations but also
believes there are places that need renovations more.

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Texas Tech Museum hosts annual Dino-Day
By DIEGO GAYTAN
Staff Writer

The Education Division at
the Museum of Texas Tech
hosted its annual Dino-Day from
1-4 p.m. Saturday.
The three-hour event provided a variety of activities for parents and children to participate
in and learn about different kinds
of dinosaurs and presented the
first 100 children to arrive at the
museum with a free backpack.
Tiffany Demmon, a Tech
Museum education intern, said
the event allowed children
who attended a special insight
into dinosaurs.
“Everything is dinosaur
themed to promote our dinosaur
gallery and our paleethnology
division,” she said. “They can
see real life fossils and talk to a
paleontologist.”
Dino-Day is a unique event
for the children who attended
because of the activities planned,
such as being able to touch and
see real dinosaur fossils, Dem-

mon said.
“We’re making it a special
day because we are allowing
things we wouldn’t normally allow,” she said.
Activities such as dig boxes,
puppet shows, raptor birds from
the South Plains Wildlife Rehab
Center and free showings of
Jurassic Park and planetarium
shows were part of Dino-Day,
according to a Tech release.
Jill Hoffman, curator for the
education division of the Tech
museum, said the raptor birds are
part of Dino-Day because of their
scientific significance.
“The connection to the birds,
scientists and paleontologists
have made a connection between
birds and dinosaurs,” she said.
“That is why we invite the South
Plains Wildlife Rehab Center to
come in.”
Dino-Day also promotes the
museum’s permanent dinosaur
exhibit, Hoffman said.
“We have all kinds of activities to promote a fun, free family
day to learn about dinosaurs,”

she said. “It’s a major part of our
collection here. It’s a permanent
exhibit, and it features dinosaurs
and information discovered in
this area.”
Around 900 to 1,200 people
attend the event, Hoffman said.
Representatives of KTTZ
were present at the event to
inform the public of the PBS
Kids Club.
“Kids Club is something PBS
has had for a long time and we
started it this year,” she said.
“We partnered with the museum
because the museum has so many
events, Dino-Day being one of
them, so the museum is sponsor
with us.”
The KTTZ Kids Club hosts
educational events throughout
the year for families and children
in the Lubbock area, according to
the KTTZ website.
Although the event is hosted
annually, every year is different
and special, Demmon said.
“We are always trying to oneup ourselves,” she said.
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ZUJJAJ TALPUR, A graduate museum sciences major from Hackensack, New Jersey, shows Rowyn Ballentine
from Shallowater a megaladon tooth at the Texas Tech Museum during Dino Days on Saturday.

Social networks, political College names distinguished
preferences may be linked engineering student award
By AMY CUNNINGHAM
Staff Writer

With the number of social
media sites and apps growing
d a i l y, t h e s o c i a l n e t w o r k s
preferred by young Americans may indicate their political preference.
According to a Harvard
Institute of Politics survey of
18 to 29 year olds, those who
identify themselves with the
Democratic Party prefer social
media outlets like Google
Plus, Twitter and Tumblr.
“I think part of it might just
deal with age demographics,”
Stuart Davison, a sophomore
political science and philosophy major from Brookshire,
said. “Younger people tend
to use social media more, and
younger people are also more
Democrat-leaning.”
Overall, young Americans
who view themselves as liberal predominantly use the
majority of sites and apps
listed. Google Plus has the
largest difference, according to the survey, with 52
percent of Democrats using

the site in comparison to 36
percent of Republicans.
However, one site serves as
an exception: Pinterest, a virtual bulletin board site, is most
used by Republican-leaning
individuals. According to the
survey, 40 percent of Republicans use Pinterest as opposed
to 37 percent of Democrats.
“Pinterest is all about curating materials for that perfect life,” Rebecca Scott, a
sophomore biochemistry major from Carthage, New York,
said. “Tumblr is more about
sharing information outside
of you. Facebook is personal.
Snapchat is personal. They’re
about sharing yourself.”
The two most bipartisan
social networks, Facebook
and Snapchat, may be such
because of their ability to send
out information and photos
quickly, Destin Trochesset, a
junior psychology major from
Santa Fe, said.
Facebook users tie at 87
percent when it comes to
aligning with the Republican
Party or Democratic Party, according to the survey.

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“I’m not surprised that
Facebook has an equal
amount of users,” he said. “It
gets information out to the
masses. In future elections,
I think social media will be
a huge asset because there’s
a greater chance both sides
will see the information.”
For other forms of social
media, like Instagram and
Foursquare, Democratic-leaning users only utilize the apps
slightly more than their GOP
counterparts. According to
the survey, 41 percent of those
who use the photo-based app
are Democrats versus 37 percent of Republicans.
“I always imagine Tumblr
and other social networks
to have a more activistlean to them,” Davison said,
“whereas Pinterest is sort of
more conservative.”
Certain sites, like Tumblr,
did not surprise Scott as being more liberal, she said.
However, she said she was
not sure why she associates
certain sites with certain kinds
of people.
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Amber Helm, a senior chemical engineering major from
Weatherford, was named the
2014 winner of the McAuley
Distinguished Engineering Student Award.
The Texas Tech Edward E.
Whitacre College of Engineering selected Helm as the recipient because of her academic
achievements, involvement in
various organizations and her
aspirations, according to a Tech
news release.
“It’s really exciting,” Helm
said. “When they told me I won,
I was just stoked. To be the win-

ner is awesome. It’s something
I’ve wanted since I found out
about it sophomore year.”
Since her freshman year,
Helm has been involved with
various research and engineering-based projects and organizations, according to the release.
She has a 3.93 GPA and will
graduate Summa Cum Laude
with Honors this month.
She currently serves as the
president of Alpha Omega Epsilon, an engineering sorority, and
is an Engineering Ambassador.
“This was something I knew
I wanted to win,” she said.

“I think I received the award
because I have done my best to
be academically successful and
I’ve wanted to be involved in
different organizations. I think
having that involvement led
to this.”
Upon graduation, Helm will
work as a production engineer
in Kermit with Anadarko, according to the release. She will
serve as an alumnae adviser to
A.O.E., be a campus recruiter
for her company and join Young
Guns, the Tech engineering
young alumni association.

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some reservations about the expansions and where the money
is being used.
He said the amount enrollment has increased does create a
reason for expansion, but he does
not know if it is worth the cost.
“Tuition has been steadily
rising for the past decade, and I
hope these projects don’t just increase tuition,” he said. “I hope
they truly enhance a student’s
experience at TTU.”
Fernandes and Bennett both
have ideas for other projects they
would like to see suggested in the
upcoming years.
Bennett said she would like
to see the Internet connections
fixed in some of the older dorms.
“I live in Gates and we just

got Wi-Fi,” she said. “It doesn’t
work half the time, though, and
I know some students that don’t
even have it yet, they’re still using Ethernet. Wi-Fi would help
me with my school more than
some of the other projects.”
On the other hand, Fernandes said he would like to see
something done to increase Tech
traditions and their prominence
on campus.
“I’d like to see something
done to the old Dairy Barn,” he
said. “It’d be nice for it to get
some attention and be a more
obvious historical marker on
campus. All in all, though, I’m
excited to see Tech continue to
grow and change.”

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“I definitely think the wellness center needs to be expanded so they work more
efficiently and get patients in
and out without waiting days
to be seen,” she said. “I think
the campus beautification is less
important, though. I guess the
idea is more students will come
to Tech if it’s prettier.”
Fernandes said he also has

The streets were lined with
people watching the parade,
and many were families with
young children.
Latino Lubbock Magazine hosted the second annual Cinco de
Mayo parade at 10 a.m. Saturday
along Broadway Street.
Christy Martinez-Garcia, the
publisher for Latino Lubbock Magazine, said 50 groups registered to be
part of the parade.
“Some groups also had multiple
smaller groups,” she said. “For
example, Northwest Little League
had 17 teams. The Purple Heart
Chapter had six Purple Heart
recipients. The outpour of support
was just overwhelming.”
While the parade has been celebrated in the past, according to a
news release, it was not hosted for
30 years until it was started again
last year.
The parade started at the First
Baptist Church and traveled east
along Broadway.
“We invited the public to be
a part of the parade,” MartinezGarcia said. “We had the Chinese
Faculty Association participate.

We also had a multicultural sorority, Girl Scout troops and so many
others. It was awesome to see such
a variety of people. I think that’s
what it’s all about for me.”
The theme of the parade was
“We Are Lubbock,” according to
the news release, and it encouraged
Hispanics to be involved because
they comprise 37 percent of the
Lubbock community.
Leah Serrano, a sophomore
accounting major from Garland,
participated in the parade with the
Texas Tech League of United Latin
American Citizens.
“We were asked to participate
by Christy,” she said. “She’s always
been so supportive of us, and she’s
sold on the idea that the younger
generation should be involved in
the community. The youth should
retain their culture even in higher
education. We wanted to show support for the community since it has
shown support for us.”
The Tech LULAC group participated with the Lubbock LULAC
council, Serrano said, and it was
easy to help decorate the joint float.
Various Tech organizations also
participated in the parade, including Minorities in STEAM and
many fraternities and sororities.

“Hispanics have some of the
youngest and fastest-growing population in the country,” MartinezGarcia said. “There were a lot of
college students out there, which
was great.”
The parade is designed to
celebrate Cinco de Mayo, according to the news release, but the
holiday is a commemoration of
the Battle of the Puebla and not
Mexican independence.
Serrano participated in the parade last year as well, and she said
there were more spectators at this
year’s parade.
“I think bringing the parade
back was a good idea because the
Hispanic population in Lubbock
is growing,” Serrano said. “It’s
good to see the community and
organizations from campus coming out. It shows that the Hispanic
community is present in Lubbock.”
Earnest Barton, the first Hispanic in Lubbock to own a radio
station, was scheduled to be the
grand marshal of the parade, Martinez-Garcia said, but was unable to
attend due to an illness.
Although he could not attend,
Barton dedicated the parade to the
youth in the community, which
Martinez-Garcia said was signifi-

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MEMBERS OF THE League of United Latin American Citizens walk in the Cinco De Mayo Parade on Saturday at First Baptist Church.

cant for the parade.
“It was unfortunate because in
some of the coverage for the event
there were remarks that we should

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“Meagan was loved by so many
people,” she said. “We just want to
turn the tragedy of what happened into
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 something positive. We don’t want it to
The support from Texas Tech and be surrounded by bad memories.”
the city has been great, Jim Rough said,
The goal is to make the event bigger
as well as the support from the sororities and better each year, Dobbs said, and
hopefully to continue to get the word
and fraternities.
“We’re grateful to be out here,” he out and have more people show up.
said. “Without the Lubbock commuThey eventually want to see a river
nity we wouldn’t be here.”
of people, Kari Rough said, glowing and
Nikki Dobbs, Meagan’s aunt, was in running down the street.
“We want it to be a fun atmocharge of the merchandise.
The event was full of loud music sphere,” she said.
and a fun atmosphere, Dobbs said.
They have created a nonprofit

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CHRISTOPHER KILEY SPEAKS during Texas Tech Theatre’s production of William Shakespeare’s “Twefth
Night or What You Will” on Sunday afternoon in the Maedgen Theatre.

Copeland heard about the event on
a TV commercial, she said, and decided
she wanted to try it.
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“I wanted to come out here and
Last year more than 3,000 youth make money,” she said, “but also give
were registered to participate, and this some to our charity.”
year they planned to have even more,
Copeland’s charity of choice was the
according to the website. Lubbock was St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
one of several cities across the country
They set up their stand at 8 a.m.,
participating in Lemonade Day.
Copeland said, and planned to stay until
Mary Jane Copeland, a 12-year-old at least 6 p.m. Each group was allowed to
middle school student from Lubbock, set up their stand wherever they wanted,
had a stand set up outside of the Chili’s as long as they got permission from the
restaurant on University Avenue.
business or owner of the property.

‘Spider-Man 2’ ropes in $92 million opening
NEW YORK (AP) — Spider-Man can still sling it at the
box office.
“The Amazing Spider-Man 2”
debuted with $92 million in North
American theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates
Sunday. It was a solid opening for
Sony’s Columbia Pictures, which has
released five movies about Marvel’s
web-slinging superhero in the last
14 years.
The release of “The Amazing
Spider-Man 2” essentially kicks
off Hollywood’s summer season
and its annual parade of sequels
and spectacle. Marvel movies
have regularly commenced summer
moviegoing in recent years, and

the “Spider-Man 2” opening begins
the season with a business-as-usual
blockbuster performance.
Last week’s No. 1 film, the female revenge comedy “The Other
Woman,” starring Cameron Diaz,
slid to a distant second with $14
million in its second weekend.
The rebooted “Spider-Man” franchise starring Andrew Garfield and
Emma Stone isn’t performing quite
as strongly as Sam Raimi’s trilogy
with Tobey Maguire. On opening
weekends, the Raimi films grossed, in
order: $114.1 million, $88.2 million
and $151.1 million.
The “The Amazing Spider-Man,”
also directed by Marc Webb, opened
on a Tuesday in 2012, making $62

million on its debut weekend and
$137 million over its first six days.
The new sequel, which began
rolling out overseas two weeks ago,

go celebrate in our own country,”
she said. “That was disappointing,
but I think that prompted people
to want to participate. This is our

is also doing huge international
business. It has already grossed $161
million abroad, and it added another
$116 million over the weekend.

country. What’s so great about being an American is being a part of
a melting pot of cultures.”
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organization called the Meagan Rough
Memorial Foundation, Kari Rough
said, to help the Rough family with
accrued expenses and encourage
scholarship contributions.
Anyone interested in getting involved or making a contribution can
find contact information and opportunities to get involved on the foundation’s website.
“It’s a good reference for people
to see what we’re doing,” Kari Rough
said, “and we encourage everyone to
get involved.”
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“I hope we raise a lot of money,”
she said, “hopefully more than $1,000.”
The stand Copeland was working
was also selling homemade cupcakes,
as well as various other treats.
They also had fresh fruit to put
in their lemonade, Copeland said,
because they wanted to have the best
lemonade possible.
“There’s a lot of competition,” she
said, “so we have to make sure that
ours is the best and that we can sell
the most.”
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Opinions

Abortion should be discussed with respect, caution
Francis
Cobbinah
being prejudicial, condemning
and overly censorious in his or
her analysis of the subject.
Abortion may be somewhat
good or evil depending on the
angle through which one decides
to look at it. Morally, abortion
may be wrong, however in some
cases, it may be right.
Having said that, someone
may question when it is good and
when it is evil.
To answer that question, doctors explain that abortion may be
quintessentially good in certain
“hard cases.” These are extreme
cases where the mother stands
risk of losing her life upon hav-

ing the baby or where the mother
was raped.
These uncompromising situations make abortion the only
“life-saving” option available. It
is, however, critical that I state for
the records that
only 1 percent
of abortions in
America are as
a result of hard
cases, according to The New
York Times.
To the evil
about abortion,
bound4life, an
online news
blog, reveals
that more than
46 million babies die worldwide of abortion annually. That
is approximately one baby every
two seconds.
In the U.S., this silent horror of abortion kills more than

“

... it is not in
anybody’s place to
judge someone who
has had or who
plans to have an
abortion.

Summer classes have many positives
By JAMIE WANDSCHNEIDER
iOwa STaTe Daily (iOwa STaTe U.)

The most looked forward to time of
the school year is when classes are officially over and summer vacation begins.
For three straight months, students take
advantage of not having to worry about
school, but they are missing out on a helpful opportunity: summer classes.
The idea of taking classes during the
summer sounds absurd. After all, summer
is supposed to be our break from school,
not a continuation of it. There are many
benefits to taking summer classes, however, that college students overlook because
of the idea of being in school longer.
The most obvious reason for taking
summer classes is to get ahead on one’s
four-year plan. This can mean students are
taking classes so they do not have to worry
about perquisites for classes the coming
fall semester. Also, if someone wants to
finish college sooner, summer classes make
that dream a reality.
Since most students would rather not
spend their summer learning, classes are
much smaller. By having a lower studentto-teacher ratio, students are able to get
much more out of a smaller class.
Instructors also have more time to
help students one-on-one and make sure
that they fully understand the material,

which is perfect for a class that a student
may find challenging. That student is
able to get the attention that is needed to
succeed. Also, this is extremely helpful for
students that prefer a smaller class setting.
Taking a few classes during the summer can also be a cheaper option than
staying an extra semester at a university.
A lot of times, summer courses are taken
at a community college, which provides
a much lower tuition. It is an inexpensive
way to get ahead on one’s education.
If the community college route is
chosen, it can always help keep your ISU
GPA in good standing. Say a student
struggles with math, but needs it as a
general education requirement.
By taking the course at a community
college during the summer, that student
is able to focus on that course instead of a
full course load, plus activities. A student
has a better chance to succeed if he or she
is only focusing on a single subject.
Also, only the credit transfers from
a community college to a university.
That way students do not have to stress
about getting a high grade, they just
need to get a passing one for it to count.
This allows students to not destroy their
GPAs because of a class that they find
particularly challenging.
Since elementary school, our teachers
have always told us to keep practicing the

3,700 babies daily, according to
Lifenews.com. This means that
in a year, abortion kills as many
Americans as have been killed
on all the battlefields in all of the
wars in U.S. history combined.
If all of this
hope, future
and potential
goes down
the drain unchecked each
year, then slowly the American dream
is becoming
the American
nightmare.
I hear a lot
of abortion advocates make
statements
such as, “after all what is killed
is only a fetus and not a human
being.” This is, in my opinion,
untrue because the word “fetus”
comes from a Latin word mean-

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hat if I told you that
right now, someone was choosing
whether you were going to live or
die? What if I told you this choice
wasn’t based on what you could or
couldn’t do, what you have done
in the past or what you would do
in the future? And what if I told
you that you could do nothing
about it?
At this moment, thousands
of children are in that situation.
Someone is choosing whether
they are going to live or die without even knowing them. That
someone is their mother and that
choice is abortion.
These sentiments expressed by
Lia Mills, a 14-year-old pro-life
activist, underscore the worrying tragedy that befalls several
unborn children on a daily basis.
The issue of abortion is a controversial one that needs to be
discussed with extreme caution.
Otherwise, one stands the risk of

ing “young one.” It is therefore right to claim that during
abortion, a young one’s life is
taken without his or her concern.
While murder is a heinous crime
and may result in serious punishments being meted out to its
perpetrators, ironically, abortion,
which involves killing, is legal in
several countries.
Some people also mention
that the mother has the right to
decide whether or not to have a
baby because, after all, having
one dramatically impacts her life.
While nobody should deny the
mother of that right, we must also
understand that with our rights
and choices come responsibilities,
and the mother, in turn, should in
no way deny the child of the right
to live. Talking about choices, the
mother also had the choice to not
even have unprotected sex in the
first place.
While I approve of the hard
cases in which abortion cannot be

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sidelined, I do not approve of the
ones that are done simply because
the mother does not want to have
a baby or is not ready to have one.
This is because the pregnancy
might have been a mistake, but
from a religious perspective, I
would say the baby is certainly not
a mistake, for God has his own
way of doing things. Moreover, no
one knows who or what the child
is going to become tomorrow.
All things considered, abortion does more harm than good.
However, it is not in anybody’s
place to judge someone who has
had or who plans to have an abortion. The way out is to encourage
them instead to choose the right
option, which is to preserve the
potential, the hope and the future
they carry in their wombs.
Cobbinah is a freshman petroleum engineering major from
Accra, Ghana.
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material we learned so when fall comes
the information is still fresh in our heads.
Taking summer classes can keep our brains
stimulated and keep them in the habit of
learning information.
Often, summer classes meet everyday,
which helps keep the material fresh and
can make it much easier to learn new
concepts since students are constantly
practicing them. When fall semester
comes around, students will not have to
rewire their brains to get back in the swing
of studying.
Some might be hesitant to take a
summer class, fearing that it will take too
much time in already busy schedules. A
majority of summer classes last less than
a semester and have online options, so
students do not have to worry about
making it to class.
Iowa State’s summer math classes,
for example, are only in session for eight
weeks, or half a semester. This makes it
easy to fit class into a busy schedule and
gives students plenty of time to still have
a relaxing summer vacation.
Summer breaks are placed to give
students some time away from school
and to unwind after a stressful school year.
Taking classes during the summer gives
students a chance to gain the benefits of
a smaller class setting and still allows them
to enjoy a break.

Students should keep minds active over summer Government should stay out of citizens’ mouths
By RACHAEL MONTGOMERY
The OklahOma Daily (OklahOma U.)

With summer just around the corner,
students are itching to toss their textbooks
aside and put the pieces of their lives back
together after finals. Take heart; there’s just
a week left!
With three months of unadulterated
freedom — not counting those who are
taking summer classes — it’s easy to slip
into a post-finals induced coma and only
come back to consciousness right before
school starts again. However, as college students, now is the time to immerse ouselves
in a continual learning process that should
not be put on hold just because it’s summer
break. Don’t get me wrong — summer
is the time to wind down and be stressfree — but that doesn’t mean you should
completely abandon all forms of academia.
Here is a list of activities and resources

that can help keep the old noggin from
getting too dusty this summer:
Read. With the amount of academic
reading required during the school year,
most students would rather watch Netflix
or cut off their own arm before picking up
a book to read for pleasure. And since our
generation is so prone to multitasking and
reading is a solitary activity, it is often put
at the bottom of the list of leisure activities.
However, if your summer is one of study
abroad, frequent poolside visits and easy
living, then there’s really nothing more
relaxing than sprawling out in the sun
and becoming engrossed in a classic novel.
Write. It doesn’t have to be academic,
just get those creative juices flowing.
Practice makes perfect. Even if you’re just
jotting down stray thoughts or how you’re
feeling, you’re making the basic process of
writing become more familiar and natural.
Furthermore, you don’t really know how

good you are at something until you try it.
Being able to express your thoughts clearly
and honestly will not only help make you
a more well rounded person, but will also
make those writing assignments for fall
semester classes go by faster.
Learn. Try learning about something
you actually care about. Throughout the
school year students are forced to learn
about things they could care less about.
However, during summer, you’re allotted a
brief period to focus on things that interest
you. After graduation, the amount of free
time you’re used to will diminish exponentially, so there’s really no better time to
find out what you’re really passionate about
than during your college years and, more
specifically, college summers.
Good luck on finals, and as you embark
on summer break, remember that summer
is not just a break, but an opportunity to
discover, learn and grow.

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Our country was founded on the idea
of freedom, and it’s a big part of what makes
us such a great country. Unfortunately, our
country’s government has a nasty habit of
sticking its nose in our business and eroding
these freedoms.
I have often heard people say, “You
can’t legislate morality.” Then why would
anyone think that the opposite is true with
obesity? As Ron Swanson from Parks and
Recreation once said, “The whole point of
this country is if you want to eat garbage,
balloon up to 600 pounds, and die of a heart
attack at 43, you can. You are free to do so.
To me, that’s beautiful.”
It’s nobody’s responsibility but ours to
keep ourselves in shape. It is naive to think
that if somebody really wants to eat five Big
Macs or drink a gallon of soda, anything
aside from the lack of money in their wallet

is going to stop them.
Back during the New York City’s
16 ounce-soda ban of 2013, professor of
behavioral economics at Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics
and Management David Just told the Los
Angeles Times that when a person wanting
to buy a large soda is prevented from doing
so, “they’re going to display what we call
reactance — a rebelliousness, a determination to circumvent this policy, an attitude of,
‘I’ll show them.’”
Beyond that, requiring every fast food
vendor to provide a calorie count just makes
it more costly for the businesses to operate.
Then, they have to increase prices to cover
new fees. A 2013 study on mandatory calorie
labeling policies by Brian Elbel, associate
professor of population health and health
policy at the New York University School
of Medicine, said researchers “found no
difference in calories purchased or fast-food
visits after the introduction of the policy.”

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Not only do these requirements increase
the cost onto the consumer, they could stop
new start-ups from happening. Let’s say
somebody wanted to open a chain of food
trucks or a restaurants. They better know the
calorie counts for their menu. They can’t just
add the numbers on the packaging of the raw
ingredients, either; the calorie calculation
process is more complicated than that.
Research from Harvard University
published in 2011 found, “that cooking
substantially increases the energy gained
from meat, leading to elevations in body
mass that are not attributable to differences in food intake or activity levels.”
The study said that their research also
highlights, as they said, “a weakness in
current food labeling practices.”
The story is the same for in-store labeling. Though companies are already required
to label their food products with nutrition
facts, the FDA is proposing further unnecessary changes to nutrition labels. They
want to increase the size and make the font
size of calorie counts larger, among various
other things. More printer ink, which we
all know is insanely expensive, will be used,
so obviously we’ll feel it in our wallets to
some extent.
It is not the place of the government
to tell me how much of something I can
buy, nor tell a food vendor how to operate,
especially when we are supposed to be the
land of the free. We are adults; we know that
eating an entire pizza or downing a gallon of
ice cream isn’t the best idea for our waistlines.
And why just leave regulating obesity to
the food, when can the government force
its view of exercise on the people? It’s not
realistic (quite dystopian, actually), but if
they’re already telling you how to eat based
on health concerns, we all know that a
little exercise can help you keep the pounds
off and help your overall health. Instead of
blaming food and vendors, why can’t people
put the weight back on their shoulders to be
responsible and lose the pounds they gain?

sports

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Monday, May 5, 2014

Red Raiders host final outdoor meet of season
By DAWIT HAILE
Staff Writer

On May 16-18, Texas Tech track
and field is set to compete in the 2014
Big 12 Conference Championships.
Those championships are scheduled to take place in Lubbock at the
Terry and Linda Fuller Track and Field
Complex. During the last weekend of
regular season meets, the Red Raider
Open on Saturday afternoon served
as a dress rehearsal for what to expect
at conference.
Tech coach Wes Kittley said the
meet went exactly as he wanted. It
provided a tune-up for the Red Raiders
and Lady Raiders to sharpen their skills
in live competition.
“I felt like we gained a lot of confidence today,” he said.
This confidence started with the
success Tech junior thrower Kole
Weldon and junior jumper JaCorian
Duffield enjoyed, Kittley said.
Weldon earned first place in the
discus throw with a toss measuring
203 7. The throw defeated 2012 U.S.
Olympian and former Red Raider
Jason Young and made Weldon the
leader for the event in the Big 12.
Weldon’s career best soon was overshadowed by what occurred in the
men’s high jump.
Duffield already owned the school
records for the high jump in indoor
and outdoor competition. Both of
those records stood at 7 3.75, but
Saturday he looked to improve upon
his outdoor record.
He first broke the school and facility record on his second attempt at a
height of 7 4.25.
Duffield said his mother has been
anxious for him to improve on his
school record marks.

All he told his mother and grandmother in response was if he set one
personal record in the meet expect
another to come, he said, and the 2013
Outdoor All-American did just that.
The bar moved up to a height of
7 5.25, and Duffield cleared it on his
first attempt.
“Well, I did not jump as strong as I
wanted to,” Duffield said, “but as I got
to my last two steps I just tried to get my
feet down as quick as possible.”
Owning the school record is a blessing, Duffield said. However, he said he is
simply focused on consistently improving so Tech earns recognition for having
the best high jumpers in the nation.
With the new school record, Duffield is ranked No. 2 in the NCAA and
has climbed to No. 8 in the International Association of Athletics Federations’ World Rankings, according
to Tech Athletics.
The work done by athletes like
Duffield and Weldon is always nice
to see, Kittley said, but his attention
concentrated on the performances from
the underclassmen and other athletes
on the team who provide depth.
These individuals will determine
how well Tech does at the conference
meet, especially for the Red Raiders,
Kittley said.
Like many of her teammates, freshman distance runner Jocelyn Caro
earned a personal best in the meet.
She ran the 1,500 meters in 4:42.05
minutes, a 2.41-second improvement
from her previous personal-best.
Caro said there were some nerves
before the race because she had
never ran this particular event at
the home track.
There were expectations for a
personal best from her, she said. Nevertheless, Caro did not expect to run as

well as she did, with about nine seconds
separating her from the second-place
finisher and teammate, freshman distance runner Katy Allen.
“The fact that I raced in here for the
first time is a relief because I finished the
race, even though this is not going to be
my race event (at conference),” Caro
said. “For sure, now, I have confidence
because I know the track now, the feel
and the competition within it.
Tech junior sprinter Trevor Mackey
placed a stamp on the meet in the
200-meter dash.
Mackey did not win the race,
placing second overall, but the 20.47
seconds it took him to finish the race
he broke a 24-year-old school record.
Former Red Raider David Shepard
set the previous record in 1990 by five
hundredths of a second.
Besides confidence of the team,
health was of the utmost importance,
Kittley said.
No one suffered an injury during
competition, so it made the performances more enjoyable, he said.
The only injury Tech had to deal
with involved Tech junior sprinter
Christen Rivers.
Rivers could not participate in the
meet because she needed emergency
surgery on an undisclosed injury,
Kittley said.
When healthy, Rivers competes in
the 200-meter dash, 400-meter dash
and the 4x400 relay. She is one fourth of
the Tech A relay team that is comprised
of senior sprinter Amoy Blake, junior
sprinter Montenae Roye-Speight and
junior sprinter Cierra White.
Tech has about two weeks to prepare before it gears up for the three-day
Big 12 Championships scheduled to
kick off May 16 in Lubbock.

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Sooners sweep Red Raiders Texas Tech baseball swept in
to end 2014 regular season weekend series by Jayhawks
The Texas Tech softball team
ended its regular season over the
weekend, getting swept by No.
10 Oklahoma.
The three-game series began
Friday with a 5-0 victory for the
Sooners. Oklahoma sophomore
pitcher Kelsey Stevens held Tech
to just two hits in a completegame shutout.
After the game, Tech coach Shanon Hays said despite being shutout,
the team still had some positives
against a tough team.
“I honestly thought we played
pretty well tonight,” Hays said in a
Tech Athletics news release. “Oklahoma has a good ball club and they
hit the ball well. I told the team
afterwards to forget about this one.
We’ll regroup tonight and look to
even the series tomorrow.”
The series continued Saturday

when Oklahoma won the series with
a 5-1 victory.
Tech freshman outfielder Kierra
Miles recorded the Red Raiders’
only run with a solo homerun in
the fifth inning. Sophomore pitcher
Cara Custer took the loss in her
second complete game of the season,
according to the release.
Hays said Tech was over aggressive at the plate and it took them
out of the game.
“We had too many strikeouts at
the plate to beat a team like OU,”
he said. “I still believe we can come
back and play well tomorrow but we
just can’t strike out that many times.
I thought we pitched and played
defense good enough to win today.
We just need to get the bats going
a little bit.”
Oklahoma finished off the
series Sunday with a 13-0 five-

inning run-rule victory. The
Sooners scored 11 runs in the
two innings which proved to be
an insurmountable lead.
Despite the sweep, the Red
Raiders earned a fourth place finish
in the Big 12 Conference. It is the
highest finish in the conference
since the 2001 season, according to
the release.
Tech ends the regular season
with a 35-19 overall record and 8-10
in Big 12 play.
The Red Raiders will now wait
to see if they have earned a spot in
the NCAA Championship. The
NCAA selection show will air at 9
p.m. Sunday on ESPN2.
If Tech is selected for the championship, the NCAA Regional
round will be hosted May 16-18 on
various campuses.

The Texas Tech baseball team won
three straight weekend series, but when
it traveled to Kansas this weekend, that
all changed.
The Jayhawks were outhit by the
Red Raiders 7-6 Friday night, according
to a news release from Tech Athletics,
but Tech starting pitcher Ryan Moseley
had a season-high five walks in five
innings of work, giving up six runs en
route to Kansas’ 11-3 win.
Tech freshman infielder Tyler Neslony went 2-for-4 in the loss, according

to the release, extending his hitting
streak to 10 games and reaching base
for the 22nd straight game.
Tech dropped game two of the series on Saturday, 6-4, according to the
release, falling behind early and never
being able to come back.
Neslony extended his hitting streak
to 11 games with a single in the fifth,
according to the release, and Tech
junior infielder Bryant Burleson led the
Red Raiders at the plate, going 3-for-5.
Tech junior relief pitcher Dominic

Moreno kept the Red Raiders in the
game, allowing only one unearned
run in his four and one-third innings
pitched, but Tech still was not able to
come back.
The Red Raiders tried to salvage
the series with a win on Sunday, but
fell 4-1.
Tech will play a midweek game on
the road Tuesday against Dallas Baptist
then return home for the final regular
season series against West Virginia.
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Parker leads Spurs past Mavs in Game 7
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — end, San Antonio rode a raucous
Tony Parker scored 32 points home crowd and overwhelmed
and the San Antonio Spurs led Dallas in the deciding game of a
by as many as 31 on their way to physical series.
119-96 victory over the Dallas
There were two technical
Mavericks, closing out a tense fouls and two flagrant fouls in
first-round series Sunday in Game 7 and two more flagrants
seven games.
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Parker was assessed a techniManu Ginobili scored 20
points, Danny Green added 16 cal with 31.6 second left in the
points and Tim Duncan and first quarter after making a layup
Kawhi Leonard had 15 points on and jawing with former teamapiece for San Antonio. The mate DeJuan Blair as the two
Spurs advance to face the fifth- ran down the court. They have
seeded Portland Trail Blazers, been talking smack to each other
who upset the Houston Rockets all series and Parker was clearly
frustrated with the hard fouls
in a six-game series.
Dirk Nowitzki had 22 points committed by Blair on his drives
and nine rebounds to lead Dallas. earlier in the series.
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Antonio coach Gregg Popovich,
who was screaming at officials
over the severity of the foul.
The flagrant foul energized
the Spurs, who went on a 14-2
run to take a 51-27 lead with
8 minutes remaining in the
first half.
Duncan dove into the Mavericks bench during that run
to save a loose ball and start a
fast break.
Later, Vince Carter tackled
Ginobili in the lane three minutes into the second quarter.
The play was initially ruled a
flagrant foul but was reversed
when reviews showed Carter
was trying to hold Ginobili up
as both tumbled out of bounds.
San Antonio never led by
less than 14 points in the second half.

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TEXAS TECH PRESIDENT M. Duane Nellis makes an announcement that the United Spirit Arena will
be renamed to the United Supermarkets Arena at a press conference Friday in the United Spirit Arena.

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but members of his coaching staff were
in attendance.
“This support is going to allow us to
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continue to provide our coaches the tools
Hocutt said coaches will be able to move their programs forward,” he said.
to move their programs forward
Tech President M. Duane Nellis said
with the deal. Members of both the he hopes to see student athletes graduate
women’s and men’s basketball team and leave with a championship ring. He
were in attendance.
said this deal will help them move towards
Tech women’s basketball coach Candi those championships.
Whitaker and volleyball coach Don Flora
Nellis said he appreciated the supwere in attendance. Tech men’s basketball port from United Supermarkets and
coach Tubby Smith was away recruiting, this move would support both Tech and

Tech Athletics.
“It’s one of my priorities that we be
more engaged as a university with the
community and this is a great example of
that,” he said.
With the deal, Hance said United
Supermarkets showed a commitment to
both Tech and Lubbock. He said they are
they are proud to show the commitment
with the name change.
“It tells who helped us out and we’re
proud of that,” Hance said.
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Pierce’s block stops Raptors comeback short, Nets move on to second round
TORONTO (AP) — Slowed by
foul trouble and struggling with his
shot, Paul Pierce still found a way to
come up big for the Brooklyn Nets.
And, right when they needed
him most.
Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry’s
shot from the lane on the final play
of the game, and the Nets held off
the Toronto Raptors 104-103 in
Game 7 on Sunday to advance to
the second round of the playoffs.
“I just happened to be in the
right place at the right time,” Pierce
said. “I saw him split the defenders, I

saw him go up, I went up with him.
“I got my hand on the ball —
game over.”
The Nets will begin the conference semifinals at Miami on
Tuesday night, facing the two-time
defending NBA champion Heat.
Pierce had more fouls (three)
than points (none) in the second
half, but his only block of the game
punctuated a hard-fought series win
for the Nets.
Leading by one, Brooklyn used
its final timeout after failing to
inbound the ball. On the second

opportunity, Shaun Livingston tried
a lob pass to Pierce, but Terrence
Ross got a hand on the ball and
then knocked it off Pierce and out
of bounds for a turnover.
“I rushed it a little bit,” Livingston said. “I’m thinking Paul is
going to hold him off. He kind of
slipped there. Once he slipped, it
was a jump ball and Terrence Ross
is probably the last guy you want to
throw a jump ball to.”
Toronto used a timeout and
gave the ball to Lowry, whose driving shot was blocked by Pierce as

time expired. Lowry lay prone in
the key as the Nets surged onto the
court in celebration.
“I really didn’t have a great offensive game,” Pierce said. “I was in
foul trouble for most of the night.
Sometimes you’ve got to find ways
to help your ballclub win.”
Nets coach Jason Kidd said
Brooklyn’s defense “bent a little”
but didn’t break, thanks mostly to
Pierce’s clutch play.
“Paul said it best, that’s why he’s
here, to make plays,” Kidd said. “He
didn’t have a great game, but it only
takes one play to help a team win
and that’s what he did tonight.”
Brooklyn went 4-0 against Miami in the regular season, but that
didn’t mean much to Brooklyn’s
Kevin Garnett.
“That goes out the window,”
he said. “This is the postseason.
They’re playing very well. They
went right through Charlotte without a beat and they have a lot of
confidence.”
Joe Johnson scored 13 of his 26
points in the fourth quarter to lead
the Nets. Marcus Thornton scored
17, Garnett had 12 points and 11
rebounds for his first double-double
of the series, and Deron Williams
added 13 points.